Facebook is on the hunt for a new acquisition, and it has apparently found a new company to buy: Waze, the crowdsourced map and traffic navigation app. Multiple sources have reported that Facebook is in negotiations to buy Waze for a rumored $1 billion. If this sounds familiar to you, that’s because it should. Just last year, Facebook purchased…
Instagram, the photo sharing service that was bought by Facebook, has now added the ability to “tag” people in photos, and gives you now an aggregation of those photos when you are on your profile (or of someone else on theirs). As you can see in the promotional video above that Instagram released, it is as simple as tagging people by their respective…
A bug on the App Store is incorrectly labelling apps as offering in-app purchases. The bug, which affects several apps, most notably Facebook and Instagram, appears on the download pages of these apps within the App Store, right below the ratings it states “Offers in-app purchases”. The problem is fairly minor, although it could deter some potential…
ADR Studio came up with a physical concept named Socialmatic a little while back. Essentially, it’s a camera that looks like the Instagram logo and has an inbuilt printer to instantly print your filter-covered images. Although there are online services that offer printed photos, stickers and magnets for Instagram, this option is certainly enticing. The…
News today, via Instagram’s latest blog post shows that the photo sharing app now has 100 million monthly active users. The achievement marks the culmination of 2 and a half years of development, and a takeover by Facebook. Despite several controversial decisions in the last year, such as the content licensing scandal and its ongoing scuffles with Twitter,…
The Facebook owned picture sharing service that lets you filter photos and convinces teenage girls that they are a professional photographer, better known as Instagram, has finally brought the full picture feed to the desktop, in the form of a reworked website. That’s right, simply by visiting and logging in to www.instagram.com will reveal…
Instagram has just announced some milestone figures for its photo-sharing service, which started its life as an iPhone-only app. It has now surpassed the 90 million active users line, who between them upload 40 million photos a day. In an statement to AllThingsD, co-founder Kevin Systrom said: “Instagram continues to see very strong growth around the…
Today Matt takes a look at a simple tweak that is going to add a “Tap To Tweet” style shortcut to the Notification Center that will allow you to quickly access and snap a picture for Instagram. Tweak: InstaSnap See If Your Device Can Be Jailbroken!: http://mofodox.me/jbstats Matt’s Tech…
If you are unaware of what it is, Pulse is a news aggregator application that allows you to go through all your favorite news sites. Well, until now there was not much of a social aspect. Before this update, the only “social” type of integration included Instagram’s top photos, YouTube’s top videos, etc. Now though, the application is going to feature…
Dear Instagramers, your photos are safe! If any of you have been following the impending war between Instagram and well, everyone that uses Instagram, then you know that Instagram was planning on changing its Terms of Service to monetize off its users photos. Apparently a lot of people didn’t like that. After massive backlash against Instagram from users…
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